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    An extremophile (from Latin extremus 'extreme', and Ancient Greek φιλία (philía) 'love') is an organism that is able to live (or in some cases thrive)...
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    Extremophiles in biotechnology is the application of organisms that thrive in extreme environments to biotechnology. Extremophiles are organisms that thrive...
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    environments and sustained colonies; these organisms are known as extremophiles. Extremophiles have been isolated from rocks as much as 7 kilometres below the...
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    Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Deinococcus radiodurans is a bacterium, an extremophile and one of the most radiation-resistant organisms known. It can survive...
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    (January 2010). "5.4: Microbial Extremophiles from Lake Untersee". Psychrophilic and Psychrotolerant Microbial Extremophiles in Polar Environments (PDF) (Report)...
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  • A halophile (from the Greek word for 'salt-loving') is an extremophile that thrives in high salt concentrations. In chemical terms, halophile refers to...
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    Prokaryotes are relatively ubiquitous in the environment and some (known as extremophiles) thrive in extreme environments. Bacteria are one of the world's oldest...
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    PMID 20086136. Brooks, Christopher (March 26, 2013). "The life of extremophiles: Surviving in hostile habitats". BBC Nature. Retrieved March 16, 2017...
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    from cyanobacteria. Bacteria can be beneficial. This Pompeii worm, an extremophile found only at hydrothermal vents, has a protective cover of bacteria...
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    Archaea (category Extremophiles)
    production and sewage treatment, and biotechnology exploits enzymes from extremophile archaea that can endure high temperatures and organic solvents. For much...
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    organelles including mitochondria. Distinctive types of prokaryotes include extremophiles and methanogens; these are common in some extreme environments. The...
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    island, around Beppu. The springs are the site of occurrence of certain extremophile microorganisms, which are capable of surviving in extremely hot environments...
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    extreme temperatures, and microgravity. Some simple forms of life called extremophiles, as well as small invertebrates called tardigrades can survive in this...
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    and environmentally more diverse than multicellular life (see e.g., extremophile). "On the tree of life, based on analyses of small-subunit ribosomal...
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  • Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Kent 25 June 2015 Extremophiles Monica Grady, Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences at the Open...
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    Life (section Extremophiles)
    the biosphere. Some of these are harsh environments occupied only by extremophiles. Life has been studied since ancient times, with theories such as Empedocles's...
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    Nematode (category Extremophiles)
    The nematodes (/ˈnɛmətoʊdz/ NEM-ə-tohdz or NEEM-; Greek: Νηματώδη; Latin: Nematoda), roundworms or eelworms constitute the phylum Nematoda. They are a...
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    biological communities surrounding hydrothermal vents and cold seeps, extremophile bacteria provide the nutrients needed to sustain life by converting dissolved...
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    of Uzon Caldera. The Uzon Caldera is a location of the occurrence of extremophile micro-organisms due to its high localized temperatures.(C.Michael Hogan...
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  • the Extremophiles Is Now Available" (PDF). InverseSquareFilms.com. December 21, 2003. Retrieved February 24, 2021. "David Kendrick". The Extremophiles web...
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    species of Archaea form endospores. The first observed archaea were extremophiles, living in extreme environments, such as hot springs and salt lakes...
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    haloarchaeal 16S rRNA gene sequences from Alpine Permo-Triassic rock salt". Extremophiles. 5 (4): 221–228. doi:10.1007/s007920100192. PMID 11523891. S2CID 1836320...
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    A thermophile is an organism—a type of extremophile—that thrives at relatively high temperatures, between 41 and 122 °C (106 and 252 °F). Many thermophiles...
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  • Biosignature Brookings Report Exotheology Extraterrestrials in fiction Extremophile Hemolithin History of the extraterrestrial life debate MERMOZ Nexus for...
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  • comprising the human microbiome. Mesophiles are the opposite of extremophiles. Extremophiles that prefer cold environments are termed psychrophilic, those...
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    with radii of 42 cm, each carrying 10,000 capsules of a hundred million extremophile microorganisms to seed life in diverse target environments. Theoretical...
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    minerals brought to the surface in hot springs often feed communities of extremophiles, microorganisms adapted to extreme conditions, and it is possible that...
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    development of more complex eukaryotic organisms. Cyanobacteria (as well as extremophile Gammaproteobacteria) are thought to be largely responsible for increasing...
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    known, unlikely. Some scientists have speculated that thermoacidophilic extremophile microorganisms might exist in the cooler, acidic upper layers of the...
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    Recent research carried out on extremophiles in Japan involved a variety of bacteria (including E. coli as a non-extremophile control) being subject to conditions...
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